Principal Architect, EDT Data Platform Engineering (Hybrid)

Stryker Group; Kalamazoo (MI); On-site; USD 136,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Stryker Group is seeking a Principal Architect for EDT Data Platform Engineering to translate enterprise data architecture into scalable Azure and Databricks solutions. You will partner with delivery teams, business representatives, and data stewards to build governed data pipelines, analytics-ready models, and reusable automation.

You will own CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and data quality frameworks, design Gold-layer models, and align with Power BI and Fabric.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a related field and 8+ years data engineering experience.
• Hands-on delivery on Azure and Databricks Lakehouse platforms.
• Experience with data governance, data quality frameworks, and metadata design.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain ingestion frameworks using Azure Data Factory and Spark.
• Implement Bronze-to-Silver transformations with data quality checks.
• Optimize batch and streaming pipelines for performance and cost.
• Own CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps and automate onboarding.
• Maintain IaC and automation using Terraform and PowerShell; troubleshoot.
• Design Gold-layer data models including star and snowflake schemas.
• Align models with enterprise semantic layer in Power BI and Fabric.
• Manage model changes with impact analysis and documentation.
• Implement Unity Catalog standards and role-based access controls.
• Translate high-level architecture into low-level designs and templates.

Skills

Data engineering

Azure Databricks

PySpark

SQL

CI/CD

Terraform

PowerShell

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business, or equivalent

Master's degree in MIS / Azure analytics certification or MBA

Tools

Azure Data Factory

Databricks

Azure Data Lake Storage

Azure SQL

Delta Live Tables

Delta Lake

Spark

Unity Catalog

PowerShell

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Job description

As a Principal Architect, EDT Data Platform Engineering you will translate enterprise data architecture into scalable engineering solutions on the Azure and Databricks Lakehouse platform. You will partner with delivery teams, business representatives, and data stewards to build governed data pipelines, analytics-ready models, and reusable automation that improves consistency across projects and teams.

What you will do:

Technical Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain ingestion frameworks using Azure Data Factory, Databricks, and Spark.
• Implement Bronze-to-Silver transformations with data quality checks, schema validation, and data contract rules.
• Optimize batch and streaming pipelines for performance and cost.
• Own CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps and automate project onboarding, including repositories, pipelines, policies, and templates.
• Maintain Infrastructure as Code and automation using Terraform, PowerShell, and Python; troubleshoot pipeline failures and permission issues.
• Design curated Gold-layer data models, including star and snowflake schemas, fact tables, dimensions, surrogate keys, and slowly changing dimensions.
• Align reusable models, KPI definitions, and business logic with the enterprise semantic layer in Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, and downstream tools.
• Manage model changes through impact analysis, backward compatibility, regression support, and documented column derivation logic.
• Implement Unity Catalog standards, naming conventions, metadata policies, data quality frameworks, and role- and attribute-based access controls.
• Translate high-level architecture into low-level designs, reusable templates, and engineering playbooks.

Leadership & People Management Responsibilities:

• Guide delivery teams through onboarding, debugging, and design reviews.
• Create reusable assets and hands-on guidance that build engineering capability and reduce repeat questions.

Knowledge and Capabilities:

• Assess complex data systems, identify patterns, and recommend practical solutions.
• Explain technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Partner with business representatives and data stewards to define requirements, validate metrics and edge cases, and guide solution decisions.
• Identify opportunities for process optimization, redesign, and new or updated policies.

What You Need:

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business, or an equivalent field of study.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in data engineering, data warehousing, and data and analytics platforms, including recent hands-on delivery on Azure and Databricks Lakehouse platforms.
• Experience with Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure SQL, Databricks Delta Live Tables, Delta Lake, Spark, Workflows, and Unity Catalog.
• Advanced experience with PySpark or Python and SQL, including batch and streaming pipeline design.
• Experience with Azure DevOps pipelines, repositories, and policies; PowerShell automation; CI/CD; and Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience with schema enforcement, data contracts, data quality frameworks, metadata-driven design, monitoring, debugging, and performance tuning.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Management Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related discipline, or an Azure analytics certification.
• Experience with Microsoft Fabric
• Experience within the medical device or another regulated industry.

United States of America Pay Ranges:

• USN: $135,600 - $225,900 USD Annual
• US10: $149,200 - $248,500 USD Annuall
• US20: $162,700 - $271,100 USD Annual

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